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I do not understand what you mean with the plates on garage doors
You see that everywhere in Belgium: it is to show that only the cars with these plates can park in front of it.
It is even explicitly mentioned in the Traffic Code:
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rough translation:
"It is forbidden to park a vehicle:
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- in front of a carriage way of a property, except those whose licence plate is reproduced at that access"
If you do not put that on the door but park your car in front of it, a cop passing there might give you a ticket as he can't know if the car can genuinely park there. But I doubt it happens unless someone complains about the car
Ah, the Belgian laws are different than the German ones. In Germany it's generally forbidden to park a vehicle in front of any property-gateways, garage-doors and where there are lowered curbstones. In small streets it's even prohibited to park on the other side, that entering that property/garage/entry is not possible.
There's no exception for the property-owner. So when you park your own car on the public street, blocking your own property-entry, you will get a ticket.
If you do not put that on the door but park your car in front of it, a cop passing there might give you a ticket as he can't know if the car can genuinely park there. But I doubt it happens unless someone complains about the car
In Germany the town councils and municipal offices are controlling the stationary traffic, the police only in coherence with criminal delicts.
And the parking-controls are very intensive and widespreaded - because it's a money-thing. Although it's always gainsaid, in fact the town councils and village-communities are always very keen on that, because it brings good money, constantly into their purses.
Also many speeding-cameras, either the stationary in the boxes or the mobile in the cars, were run by them.
I'm living in the periphery of a village, but in a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_street where parking is only allowed in the marked parking-lots - the lady of the municipal office checks our street several times per week...